Tom Jones - The Life - Sean Smith

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      First published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2015

      FIRST EDITION

      © Sean Smith 2015

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      Source ISBN: 9780008104450

      Ebook Edition © March 2015 ISBN: 9780008104528

      Version: 2015-07-10

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       Robbie

       Cheryl

       Victoria

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       Britney: The Biography

       J. K. Rowling: A Biography

       Jennifer: The Unauthorized Biography

       Royal Racing

       The Union Game

      Sophie’s Kiss (with Garth Gibbs)

      Stone Me! (with Dale Lawrence)

      To HB

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Also by Sean Smith

       Dedication

       Part One: Tommy Woodward

       1 The Show-Off

       2 The Prisoner of Laura Street

       3 A Teenager in Love

       4 The Making of a Man

       5 The Girl with the Red Dress On

       6 Senator Tom

       7 The Green Fly Boys

       Part Two: Tom Jones

       8 The Black Hole

       9 It’s Not Unusual

       10 Pussycat

       11 Green, Green Grass

       12 A Love Supreme

       13 This Is Tom Jones

       14 On Top of Miss World

       15 The King and I

       16 The Slump

       Part Three: Sir Tom

       17 Kiss-Off

       18 You Can Leave Your Hat On

       19 My Best Friend’s Funeral

       20 Reloading

       21 In Search of Credibility

       22 The Road

       23 The Voice

       Last Thoughts

       Tom’s Stars

       Acknowledgements

       Select Bibliography

       List of Searchable Terms

       Picture Section

       About the Publisher

Part One

      1

       The Show-Off

      Even as a small boy, it was always about the voice. Tom calls it his ‘God-given gift’. Freda Woodward believed her son was musical as a baby when she held him in her arms: ‘As soon as music came on the radio, he would start to move like a jelly. And if you left him in his cot, he would make musical sounds at the top of his voice. I remember thinking, “What’s eating this boy?”’

      Tom’s first memory of impressing his mother was when he was a blond, curly-haired five-year-old and she heard him singing the popular wartime novelty song ‘Mairzy Doats’. She asked him to sing it again, and when he had finished, she told him, ‘You’ve got a lovely voice.’ That parental approval was all the encouragement Tom needed to believe that he would be a singer one day. ‘I had this voice and the love of it. So any chance I could get, I wanted to get up and sing.’

      Tommy Woodward liked

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